Ride into the Danger Zone?

And so it's official. Cape Breton's newest theatre troupe is "The Danger Zone?" I've used quotations to highlight the joke in the punctuation. I won't do that often so keep up. Also future fans please remember, the title is an inquiry so intone it thusly!

Anyone wandering in from the Digital Webbing direction may remember me ranting about a shadowy prank Improv group. Likely you may not so I'll explain the evolution of The Danger Zone?.

Back in December, I severed my affiliations with Improv U over some bad water. Though my severance was honest and remained true, all bad feelings were put aside but through it Dave AuCoine misposted, or posted it remains unkown, a comment about Improv V. A legend was born.

Mocking ourselves in the process the former members of Improv U as well as about half the current members made about a weeks worth of jokes about Improv V until one day Dave phoned me from Toronto. How funny would it be if Improv V was real he asked. The plan was to continue talking about Improv V, it would become for everyone an old joke. No one outside the V would know the truth and they would wonder why we continued to rant about V. We even set up a V message board and created a V-psuedo religion involving the "essence of V" and the "power of five blades with the precision of one". The punchline was everyone else thought Improv V was a bad joke, when in fact six of us would show up at the improv competition in Wolfville in March under the name "Improv V". Finally in true WWF style we'd be the "villains" of the event. Yeah it was gonna be pretty sweet, but like all things when only one group of people know the answers, the other group of people tries to guess.

They guessed we were planning to embarrass them, and so long story short we scrapped Improv V. Why let that ruin your plans you ask? We didn't.

So there you have it, the members of Improv V have disbanded and out of those ashes has come a new idea. Many of us post V were talking and realised that there were some people who just wanted a theatre group to have fun with, as opposed to the psuedo proffesionalism of Improv U. In fact some people from U and people from neither U nor V were interested as well. We decided to form a new group called The Danger Zone? and go to the AUIC anyway.

I think it's gonna be pretty sweet chillin' at the AUIC with some of the best performers in Nova Scotia and beyond and in the meantime we get to explore some venues that currently don't get explored in Cape Breton.

We can only see where the future takes us as we venture deeper into... The Danger Zone?